coreopsis, tickseed, tickweed, tick-weed
(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tickseed (plural tickseeds)
A seed or fruit resembling a tick in shape, or in clinging to the skin or hair/fur.
A plant producing such seed or fruit, such as those in the genera
Bidens, beggarticks.
Coreopsis, coreopsis
Corispermum, bugseeds
Desmodium, tick-trefoils
• seed tick
Source: Wiktionary
Tick"seed`, n. Etym: [Tick the insect + seed; cf. G. wanzensamen, literally, bug seed.]
1. A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.
2. (Bot.) (a) Same as Coreopsis. (b) Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
